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A federal judge on Friday indefinitely delayed a final ruling on a request by labor unions to block Elon Musk's government efficiency team from accessing internal system data, telling both parties, "You will hear from me," while declining to promise an exact time or date. The update from U.S. District Judge John Bates, a George W. Bush appointee, comes just one week after he rejected an earlier request from unions representing Labor Department employees for a temporary restraining order to block DOGE access to internal system data. The judge said the plaintiffs lacked standing and failed to show they would...

Key Points * Mark Zuckerberg’s open effort to curry favor with President Donald Trump has rattled employees, and the company is censoring their criticism internally, according to people familiar with the matter. * While Zuckerberg is trying to improve his relationship with Trump after the president’s tumultuous first term, sources say he’s aiming to hurt Apple in the process. * Zuckerberg recently told podcast host Joe Rogan that Meta’s profit would double if Apple stopped applying “random rules” that tax his company. ============================================================================== Mark Zuckerberg kicked off 2025 with an Instagram video that outlined his vision for what he called...

... The problem with that starts with the fact that it's not in a database. It's a wildly heterogeneous collection of different databases, ISAM files, and card images, and I would bet money that a lot of it is on old 7-track tapes. Some of these are probably stored in Iron Mountain or a similar installation. Also, some of the data may still be just on paper, as, apparently, government retirement records are. So what Big Balls and the other wizards are going to need to do to start with is find the data. I'm willing to bet there's no...

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The Washington Post reported Friday that the United Kingdom’s deep state has demanded that Apple create a back door for them to retrieve all the content any Apple user worldwide has uploaded to the cloud—what would be an unprecedented erosion of online privacy and civil liberties. This works because once the UK seizes your data, they can hand that to the Feds in the states, and your Constitutional rights are NOT violated because the US government did not illegally seize it without a warrant. The American Revolution Was Over This Very Issue And Starmer’s Government is Doing What King George...

A group of investors led by Elon Musk is offering about $97.4 billion to buy the nonprofit behind OpenAI, escalating a dispute with the artificial intelligence company that Musk helped found a decade ago. Musk and his own AI startup, xAI, and a consortium of investment firms want to take control of the ChatGPT maker and revert it to its original charitable mission as a nonprofit research lab, according to Musk's attorney Marc Toberoff. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman quickly rejected the unsolicited bid on Musk's social platform X, saying, “no thank you but we will buy Twitter for $9.74 billion...

Elon Musk is leading a group of investors offering to buy OpenAI for nearly $100 billion. The takeover bid was submitted to OpenAI's board of directors on Monday, Musk's attorney Marc Toberoff told the Wall Street Journal. Open AI is currently a non-profit run by Musk's nemesis Sam Altman. The tech entrepreneurs are currently locked in a legal battle about the future of the company, considered a leader in artificial intelligence research. The maker's of ChatGPT have not publicly responded to the unsolicited bid from Musk and his associates. Musk's audacious bid has thrown a spanner in Altman's plans to...

Researchers in artificial intelligence (AI), from Stanford and the University of Washington, have trained a "cutting-edge" reasoning AI model for under $50 in cloud compute credits, according to a research paper published recently. The model, named s1, purportedly rivals industry-leading models like OpenAI's o1 and DeepSeek's R1 in tests of math and coding skills. The s1 model, along with the data and code used for training, is now available on GitHub. The team behind s1 started with an off-the-shelf base model and fine-tuned it through distillation, a process that extracts reasoning abilities from another AI model by training on its...

Dave Portnoy, founder of Barstool Sports, promoted a new meme coin called Jailstool yesterday, making its market cap surge by 119,000% in less than five hours, with its price up by 2.6 million percent in the past twenty-four hours. The token instantly became popular after Dave tweeted and held a late-night X Space with his 3.5 million followers.

Just for grins, I typed in "how many audits did Obama order?" It didn't answer the question. Not even close. But there were plenty of lines peripheral to the subject of auditing in general. Pity we can't require something that functions as a public utility to actually serve the public. Private business, and all.

The founder of online drug marketplace Silk Road could claw back the $6.5billion worth of Bitcoin seized from the platform after being pardoned by Donald Trump and freed from a life sentence behind bars. Ross Ulbricht, who was sentenced in 2015, could mount a legal challenge to reclaim the money in what pardon experts said would add 'insult to injury' for law enforcement, DailyMail.com can reveal. Ulbricht's case would hinge on whether the money is in the custody of a court or whether it has been deposited with the Treasury. If it is still under the jurisdiction of a court...

Considering the people who run DOGE, I wonder if they don't already have all that government information; they just need to jump through all the hoops involved in obtaining it legally so that nobody suspects anything.

The Volusia Sheriff's Office said it needs the public's help to find a former New Smyrna Beach condo association president they believe stole or misused $1 million using some of the money to buy himself specialty products that included acne cream. Julius Bruggeman, 76, formerly of New Smyrna Beach, is wanted on charges of grand theft, organized scheme to defraud, and racketeering, the sheriff's office said in a Facebook post. A seven-month investigation showed Bruggeman stole or misappropriated about $1 million from the New Smyrna Beach Club Condo Association over a 10-year period, investigating deputies said. The complex is home...

By Kanye West is doubling and tripling down on his anti-Jewish stand and has taken to Elon Musk‘s microblogging platform to do so. The rapper went on a rant on X, the social media platform formerly known as Twitter, and took jabs at Musk, defended his wife Bianca Censori from criticism of her Grammys look, and praised Hitler. “I’m never apologizing for my Jewish comments,” West wrote in one of his many antisemitic posts. “I can say whatever the (explitive) I wanna say forever. Where’s my 9explitive) apology for freezing my accounts. Suck my (profanity). How’s that for an apology.”...

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Four young coders sat in Treasury’s basement. Their screens cast blue light across government desks. Their mission? Crack the deep state. “We’re in,” Akash typed. “All of it.” Within hours: $17 billion in waste exposed. No committees. No approvals. No red tape. Just four coders with a bunch of laptops. Moving faster than bureaucracy could react. By the time resistance drafted its first memo… Three more systems were already mapped.

The clock struck 2 AM on Jan 21, 2025. In Treasury's basement, fluorescent lights hummed above four young coders. Their screens cast blue light across government-issue desks, illuminating energy drink cans and agency badges. As their algorithms crawled through decades of payment data, one number kept growing: $17 billion in redundant programs. And counting. "We're in," Akash Bobba messaged the team. "All of it." Edward Coristine's code had already mapped three subsystems. Luke Farritor's algorithms were tracing payment flows across agencies. Ethan Shaotran's analysis revealed patterns that career officials didn't even know existed. By dawn, they would understand more about...

READ MORE: Walmart to cut hundreds of jobs and close North Carolina office Walmart has long been the biggest retailer in the US, since it overtook Sears in 1993. For the past 12 years, there has also been no other company - retail or otherwise - that pulled in more revenue. But it is looking like it is set to be dethroned by Amazon on both counts, according to estimates by market analysts. With America's, and the world's, obsession with shopping, it is perhaps no surprise that it is another retailer - rather than a technology giant - that has...

Long Version -Foreigner Powers first "Smurf/Smurfing" (replace names and data on financial tools like cards illegally) into Act Blue to launder the money (likely with a bribe imo) -To fund political power consolidation -To Rig Elections and Trash Cities -To Replace good citizens with willing voter cattle -To Elect the Corrupt Congressmen and local officials, ALL CONGRESS IS AWARE -To facilitate Corruption and Fund NGO'S worldwide AND PRINT INFINITE MONEY GLITCH -NGO'S Launder money a gorillion times to other NGO's and also Facilitate Child Trafficking -Other NGO'S Spread The WOKE MIND VIRUS EVERYWHERE (See GamerGate, ComicsGate, Crap Films, Metal, Any...

A conservative group has published a list of government workers who they say are earning huge sums for 'abusing Diversity, Equity and Inclusion' roles. The American Accountability Foundation works to 'expose the left's efforts to obstruct, subvert and sabotage the America First conservative agenda'. They launched a website - 'DEI watchlist' - where they shared the profiles and tax-funded pay of federal staffers who they say exploit their DEI jobs. It includes donating to Democratic candidates and causes and working in DEI and other health equity operations. One of the federal workers named on the site told NBC News they...